This is not directly related to Perl, but it is to allow one of my team to start working on our Perl scripts...

Our Debian 12 webserver has Apache and Plesk installed. All Perl scripts under the webroot have the 'owner' set to a user created by Plesk for that website and the 'group' set to psacln. The 'permissions' for each script is set to 0755.

I log on as root, so have no issue accessing Perl scripts and other files.

I've created an FTP account for a team member and added them to the psacln group. They can read files on the server but cannot edit them because the write permission is set for the owner only. Of course, I could change the permissions to 0775 which would give the FTP account write access but I'm concerned about doing that for two reasons.

  1. It seems like a security risk
  2. Apache gives a 403 error for scripts set to 0775

I assume Apache can be set to run scripts with the group write bit set. But is this a good idea or is there a better way to give read/write access to an FTP account?

In reply to [OT] FTP user permissions by Bod

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